EP1515429A2 - Récepteur à conversion directe et méthode de récéption - Google Patents

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EP1515429A2
EP1515429A2 EP04103956A EP04103956A EP1515429A2 EP 1515429 A2 EP1515429 A2 EP 1515429A2 EP 04103956 A EP04103956 A EP 04103956A EP 04103956 A EP04103956 A EP 04103956A EP 1515429 A2 EP1515429 A2 EP 1515429A2
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  • the invention relates to a direct conversion receiver and a reception method in direct conversion receivers.
  • the invention relates particularly to removal of IQ (In-phase/Quadrature) phase imbalance in direct conversion receivers.
  • a direct conversion analog front-end architecture in the receivers.
  • a received RF signal is mixed directly into the base band and thereafter analog-to-digital converted.
  • two signals, a sine and a cosine signal have to be provided. Because of technical reasons the precise orthogonality of both sinusoidal signals cannot be guaranteed; therefore an angle ⁇ 90° is measurable between the sine and cosine functions. This phenomenon is commonly called IQ phase imbalance.
  • Analog base band components such as low-pass filters and baseband amplifiers are installed twice: one component for the I- branch and one component for the Q-branch. Because of manufacturing tolerances, or temperature influences, each component of a certain functional type may behave slightly differently compared with its counterpart on the other branch. The conjunction of frequency dependent base band devices with the constant IQ phase imbalance imperfections result in frequency selective IQ phase imbalance inaccuracies.
  • Figures 1A and 1B show an example of the reception of a multi-carrier signal under the effect of IQ imbalance.
  • the received signal contains six carriers 100 to 114, out of which carriers 100 to 104 form the lower sideband and carriers 110 to 114 above the local oscillator (LO) frequency form the upper sideband.
  • Figure 1B shows how the signal spectrum of Figure 1A may look after frequency conversion to base band when sufficient image rejection is not performed.
  • image signals 110A-114A overlap the converted signals 100A-104A.
  • image signal 110A of signal 110 is stronger than the weak signal 104A which may prevent reception of signal 104A.
  • the invention provides a receiving method and a receiver so that IQ imbalance is reduced thus enhancing reception of weak signal components.
  • a receiving method in a direct conversion receiver includes the steps of receiving, mixing, converting, measuring, estimating, and compensating.
  • the steps of receiving receives a signal including multiple components at different receiving frequencies belonging to a frequency band.
  • the mixing step mixes each of the received signal components into a corresponding base band signal including I- and Q branches.
  • the converting step converts the analog base band signal into a digital signal.
  • the method also measures power levels of the signal components in the digital signal in pairs, where one component in the pair belongs to an upper sideband of the frequency band and one component in the pair belongs to a lower sideband of the frequency band.
  • the method estimates, when either the upper sideband component or the lower sideband component dominates in power over the other component in the pair, a frequency-independent phase imbalance, a frequency-dependent phase imbalance and a gain imbalance.
  • the method compensates the estimated frequency-independent phase imbalance, the frequency-dependent phase imbalance and the gain imbalance to at least one of the I- and Q-branch signals.
  • the invention also relates to a direct conversion receiver including a receiving mechanism, a mixing mechanism converting mechanism, measuring mechanism, estimating mechanism, and compensating mechanism.
  • the receiving mechanism receives a signal including multiple components at different receiving frequencies belonging to a frequency band.
  • the mixing mechanism mixes each of the received signal components into a corresponding base band signal including I- and Q branches.
  • the converting mechanism converts the analog base band signal into a digital signal.
  • the receiver includes the measuring mechanism for measuring power levels of the signal components in the digital signal in pairs, where one component in the pair belongs to an upper sideband of the frequency band and one component in the pair belongs to a lower sideband of the frequency band.
  • the receiver includes the estimating mechanism for estimating, when either the upper sideband component or the lower sideband component dominates in power over the component in the pair, a frequency-independent phase imbalance, a frequency-dependent phase imbalance and a gain imbalance.
  • the receiver includes compensating mechanism for compensating the estimated frequency-independent phase imbalance, the frequency-dependent phase imbalance and the gain imbalance to at least one of the I- and Q-branch signals.
  • the invention provides a direct conversion receiver, including a receiver, a mixer, an analog-to-digital converter, a measuring unit, an estimator, and a compensator.
  • the receiver receives a signal including multiple components at different receiving frequencies belonging to a frequency band.
  • the mixer mixes each of the received signal components into a corresponding base band signal including I- and Q branches.
  • the analog-to-digital converter converts the analog base band signal into a digital signal.
  • the receiver also includes a measuring unit to measure power levels of the signal components in the digital signal in pairs, where one component in the pair belongs to an upper sideband of the frequency band and one component in the pair belongs to a lower sideband of the frequency band.
  • the estimator estimates, when either the upper sideband component or the lower sideband component dominates in power over the component in the pair, a frequency-independent phase imbalance, a frequency-dependent phase imbalance and a gain imbalance.
  • the compensator compensates the estimated frequency-independent phase imbalance, the frequency-dependent phase imbalance and the gain imbalance to at least one of the I- and Q-branch signals.
  • invention thus relates to direct-conversion receivers, where a received RF signal may be directly mixed into a base band signal without analog down-conversion to intermediate frequency (IF).
  • the analog base band signal may thereafter be analog-to-digital converted.
  • the IQ-phase imbalance may be determined and the correction for the imbalance may be performed into a digital base band signal.
  • a multicarrier signal can be divided into pairs occupying the same (positive and negative) base band frequency bands as shown in Figure 1A. For example, in situation of Figure 1A, there are 6 carriers and correspondingly there are then 3 carrier pairs.
  • power levels of the received signal components are measured and the estimation for the IQ imbalance are performed pair wise when and only when either the upper or the lower sideband signal component of the carrier pair dominates over the other component. Once estimation has been carried out, compensation can but does not need to be carried out when signals have comparable power.
  • Estimation for each pair can be carried out independently, i.e., estimation can be done for pair #1 if one of two carriers in it dominates, and likewise for pairs #2 and #3.
  • the I- and Q-signals may be transformed into frequency domain, and the estimation of IQ imbalance may be based on phase of the cross-spectrum of the transformed signals.
  • the inventive algorithm and apparatus can be implemented so that one of the signal branches, I and Q, is kept constant, and the phase imbalance is estimated in relation to the branch that is kept constant.
  • component-specific frequency-dependent phase imbalance estimates may be formed and the frequency-independent phase imbalance may be estimated as average of the component-specific estimates.
  • the frequency-dependent phase imbalance is estimated as half of the difference between the component-specific, frequency-dependent phase imbalance estimates.
  • the gain imbalance and the frequency-dependent phase imbalance may be compensated for by digital filtering, and a frequency-independent phase error may be removed by subtracting one of the suitably weighted signal branches I and Q from the other branch signal.
  • the invention can in an advantageous manner compensate for the frequency-dependent IQ imbalance thus reducing disadvantages of IQ cross talk.
  • Figure 1A illustrates reception of a multicarrier signal
  • Figure 1B shows the effect of the image signals in the frequency domain
  • Figure 2A shows one embodiment of the method according to the invention
  • Figure 2B specifies the method disclosed in Figure 2A.
  • Figure 3 illustrates an example of a direct conversion receiver according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • a direct conversion receiver is a receiver where a received radio frequency (RF) signal is converted directly to a base band frequency without any intermediate frequency (IF) conversion in between.
  • RF radio frequency
  • Figures 2A and 2B disclose one embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • a signal having multiple frequency components is received.
  • the signal can thus originate from a single source or can contain multiple carriers from independent sources.
  • the IQ imbalance problem will here be explained using dual-carrier scenario as an example. However, both the problem and the compensation algorithm can be straightforwardly generalized to scenarios with more than two carriers.
  • v I1 (t) and v Q1 (t) denote the base band in-phase and quadrature-phase components of the signal 1, respectively, and the terms v I2 (t) and v Q2 (t) represent the respective components of the signal 2.
  • the frequency bands of the signals may be located symmetrically around the local oscillator (LO) frequency f LO .
  • the carrier 1 has thus the frequency f LO +f 0 and the carrier 2 has the frequency f LO -f 0 .
  • the dual-carrier signal entering the RF port of the receiver further goes through a bandpass filter and a low-noise amplifier. Then the signal is down-converted, that is, mixed into base band signal in a quadrature demodulator according to step 202.
  • the resulting I- and Q-branch signals can be low-pass filtered, amplified, and converted into a digital signal according to step 204.
  • phase offset between the RF signal and the LO may be ignored as being irrelevant.
  • the digital signals i(t) and q(t) may be subjected to another quadrature down-conversion, in which they are mixed with signals cos(2 ⁇ f 0 t) and sin(2 ⁇ f 0 t). Lowpass-filtering the mixing products and combining them appropriately yields the desired signals v I1 (t), v Q1 (t), v I2 (t) and v Q2 (t).
  • the receiver now has some IQ imbalance. Part of the imbalance arises from the I- and Q-branch LO signals differing from perfect phase quadrature. In this discussion, the imbalance is called frequency-independent phase imbalance. In addition to the frequency-independent phase imbalance, there may be frequency-dependent deviations in the gain and phase responses of the I- and Q-branch mixers, low-pass filters, and other analog components. Without loss of generality, one may take the Q-branch of the receiver as reference and assume that all nonideality occurs in the I-branch only.
  • powers of signal components are measured.
  • powers of the signal components on the opposite sides of the LO frequency may be pair-wise compared to each other.
  • the method estimates the phase and gain imbalance according to step 210. The estimation provides the correcting step 212 with correction factors to correct the phase and gain imbalance.
  • Figure 2B specifies the estimating and correcting steps of Figure 2A according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the transformation from time to frequency domain being performed in step 210A.
  • the transformation can be performed e.g. with Fast Fourier transform or discrete Fourier transform.
  • ⁇ g(f) and ⁇ (f) denote, respectively, gain and phase imbalance as functions of frequency
  • ⁇ represents the phase error between the I- and Q-branch LO signals.
  • steps 210A-210D are not limited to the order of steps but on the contrary, these steps can be performed in any order.
  • the above mentioned dual-carrier scenario is still used as an example.
  • the method can be straightforwardly generalized to situations with more than two carriers.
  • frequency-dependent phase imbalance ⁇ (f) may be estimated.
  • the estimation may be implemented from the complex-valued frequency-domain signals X(f) and Y(f).
  • notation ⁇ Z> denotes the expectation value of the quantity Z, evaluated in practice by averaging the values of Z over several sets of data.
  • Equation (8) ⁇ X(f 0 +f)Y*(f 0 +f) > ⁇ j. 1 ⁇ 4 ⁇ g(f 0 +f) exp(j ⁇ (f 0 +f))(exp(-j ⁇ )S 2 (f)-exp(j ⁇ )S 1 (f)).
  • the signal 1 with RF carrier at frequency f LO +f 0 may experience an effective phase imbalance ⁇ 1 (f)
  • the signal 2, with RF carrier frequency f LO -f 0 experiences an effective phase imbalance ⁇ 2 (f)
  • the estimation of the phase imbalance from the phase of the averaged quantity ⁇ X(f)Y*(f)> yields considerable advantages.
  • the phase of cross-products of signals satisfying Equations (4) and (5) may oscillate randomly and rapidly vanish, leaving only contributions proportional to the spectrum of the signals to remain, as shown in Equation (8). Consequently, the correlation between the I- and Q-components of signal 1 or those of signal 2 may only affect the spectrum of those signals and does not influence the phases.
  • the phase of the terms proportional to the spectrum of signals 1 and 2 are independent of the exact shape of the spectra, the signals themselves do not need to be known and the estimation is blind. The algorithm does not require pilot signals or decision-aided feedback.
  • phase of the quantity ⁇ X(f)Y*(f)> directly yields phase imbalance data in Fourier domain. Hence, it is not necessary to use loops in time domain, and the method converges remarkably rapidly.
  • a secondary algorithm may be needed to separate the frequency independent and frequency dependent contribution. Several methods to accomplish this separation may be included in this invention.
  • the phase of the averaged quantity ⁇ X(f)Y*(f) > may depend on the relative strengths of the signals. However, under the condition that either S 1 (f) >> S 2 (f) or S 2 (f) >> S 1 (f), the phase of the averaged quantity ⁇ X(f)Y*(f) > directly yields either the quantity ⁇ 1 (f) or the quantity ⁇ 2 (f). Referring back to Figure 2A and steps 206 and 208 the phase imbalance is estimated from the phase of the averaged quantity ⁇ X(f)Y*(f) > only when one of the signals in the signal component pair dominates in receiving power over the other one.
  • the dominating signal alternates over a reasonable measuring period, i.e., signal 1 may dominate part of the time and signal 2 may dominate part of the time. In such conditions, estimates may be obtained for both quantities ⁇ 1 (f) and ⁇ 2 (f).
  • the phase error between I and Q LO-signals ⁇ that is, the frequency independent phase error
  • ⁇ the phase error between I and Q LO-signals ⁇
  • ⁇ the frequency independent phase error
  • polynomial fitting methods can be used to extract the imbalances from either quantity ⁇ 1 (f) or ⁇ 2 (f) alone.
  • One approach to achieve the desired alternation in the relative signal powers is to use the RF test loop.
  • signals generated by the RF test loop can be used to achieve initial values for the imbalance.
  • the RF test loop may be used to generate the other signal for imbalance estimation purposes.
  • the method can be straightforwardly generalized to cases with more than two carriers. It may then be required that the phase imbalance is estimated only when each frequency band of interest is dominated by only one of the two possible carriers that can occupy that particular frequency band. Decomposition into frequency-dependent and frequency-independent imbalance contribution is then straightforward.
  • Estimation of gain imbalance ⁇ g(f) as shown by step 210D can be estimated with some prior art method utilizing the signals from ADCs to obtain frequency-domain signals X(f) and Y(f) by Fourier transform according to step. As a result of the Fourier transform, the amplitude levels of each frequency component are determined. Initially, both I- and Q-branch contain both sidebands but with different phases. In the average, the I- and Q-branches have the same power, if both branches are identical. The ratio of the amplitude averages at each frequency point of the I- and Q-branches may reveal the frequency dependent gain difference between the I- and Q-branch of the receiver.
  • Method steps 210B-210D presented above contribute to the determination of, according to step 210E, the desired signals presented by equations (3).
  • a digital equalizer such as a FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter can be realized so that its frequency response matches the inverse imbalance exp(-j ⁇ (f)) / (cos( ⁇ ) ⁇ g(f)).
  • the accuracy of the correction depends on the accuracy of the estimated imbalance parameters. Hence, the algorithm for imbalance estimation may be of crucial importance.
  • Step 212A uses an equalizer to compensate the gain imbalance and frequency-dependent phase imbalance.
  • second correction step 212B is introduced, where correction may be performed with a subtraction element compensating the frequency-independent phase imbalance.
  • Tunable delay elements can be added to control overall delay between the I- and Q-branches and to alleviate the filter synthesis.
  • An alternative solution in comparison to the one disclosed above, is, not to use delay elements but, instead, to carry out the correction to either I- or Q-branches according to which branch has a shorter delay.
  • the inventive idea can also be implemented so that LO phase error is compensated by introducing an opposite phase imbalance into the digital oscillator in the base band double quadrature stage which follows the compensation stage.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a receiver according to the invention.
  • the receiver includes a receiving device 300 that includes an antenna, whereby a radio frequency signal from a transmitter is received.
  • the received signal may be band pass filtered in a filter 302 and amplified in a low noise amplifier 304.
  • the signal may be mixed directly into the base band frequency in mixers 306A-306B where local oscillator 308 provides the RF signal used in the mixing.
  • an analog complex signal s(t) I(t) + jQ(t), having approximately 90 degrees phase difference between the signal branches, is available.
  • the I- and Q-components may be passed to corresponding analog low pass filters 310A-310B and a base band amplifiers 312A-312B.
  • the signals may then be converted into digital signals in a converting device, that is, A/D converters 314A-314B.
  • an IQ phase imbalance estimation block 316 may follow directly after the A/D converters 314A-314B. The signal may then be processed by tunable delay elements 318A-318B to control overall delay between the I- and Q-branches and to alleviate the filter synthesis.
  • frequency-dependent phase imbalance ⁇ (f), frequency-independent phase imbalance ⁇ and gain imbalance ⁇ g(f) are estimated.
  • Figure 3 shows one example to correct the estimated factors of the total IQ imbalance.
  • the receiver may contain a compensating device, which includes a first correcting device 320A such as a FIR filter to compensate for the frequency-dependent phase imbalance ⁇ (f) and the gain imbalance ⁇ g(f).
  • the compensating device further contains a subtraction element 320B-320C to subtract the frequency-independent phase imbalance ⁇ to obtain the compensated signals I'(f) and Q'(f) in equations (3).
  • the invention can be realized as a DSP (Digital Signal Processing) algorithm.
  • DSP Digital Signal Processing
  • the invention can be implemented together with the other RF-related DSP functions, such as digital down-conversion, filtering and scaling.
  • ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
  • FPGA Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • processor-based approaches can be used.

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